Month: May 2018

Like I said in the Saigon Street Food Tour post, Vietnam was the country with the food I was most excited about. We cook and eat a lot of Asian food when we’re at home but Vietnamese is one cuisine we rarely sampled for a couple of reasons. Firstly, we’d never been. Secondly, there’s no …

Even though it’s only 110km from Kuala Namu airport to Bukit Lawang the estimated journey time is around 4 hours. Throw in a torrential rain storm and this increases to 5 and a half hours. We were pretty glad we’d booked the airport taxi pick up through our accommodation now so could experience a final …

Originally our rough plan had been to fly to Singapore from Vietnam and work our way north, overland to Penang and fly to Sumatra from there. However, when we realised we would need to do an Indonesian visa run, we decided to save Singapore for that and instead fly from Vietnam to KL. Melaka is …

Malaysia is such an ethically diverse country and the Malay, Peranakan, Chinese, Indian and Western influences also show in its’ food. Basically, there’s something everyone will like, and if you love food, you won’t stop eating! Here’s a summary of our food journey through Malaysia. Melaka One of the best places to sample Peranakan cuisine. …